You’re playing chess. But every time you glance away, your opponent steals one of your pieces off the board. Your options are:

• Keep playing by the rules, hoping your high-minded example activates your opponent’s conscience and they stop cheating.
• Recognize your opponent is a cheater who has no morals and do what you need to do to stop them from cheating.

That’s the situation we’re in at this point.

As a software developer who is currently working on a “prompt engineering” task, the words “you are absolutely correct” are like knives to my soul now.

If you can get it, Portland Ketchup is very good, and you won’t be supporting dipshit multimillionaires.

That’s definitely where the world is headed. As an American, my stomach drops every time I think about what exports from the United States are going to look like when the quarterly numbers come out. No one wants to buy from us anymore because… Well… We’re a bunch of fucking assholes.

Every sperm is sacred…

There’s no evidence of that here, but I’m fine with right-wing conspiracy crazies freaking out over the possibility.

Fair point. But our cars? Nah.

Yeah, good luck with that. No one’s gonna buy our rice or shitty, gas-guzzling cars over there because of this trade war shit, so this is basically just Trump announcing a 15% tax on consumers who want to buy stuff from Japan.

Nah, he was old and sick, so it’s probably natural causes, but it certainly won’t help the conspiracy theorists on the right who’ve been flailing around over Epstein.

Translation: Military bases in New Jersey, Indiana, to be turned into concentration camps.

Yeah, but the price of eggs…

Dude, read the room. Yeah, your road probably needs to be repaired, but not with that money.

That’s how it begins. Gradually, you’ll see things you’re used to always having in stock disappear, while other things become steadily less affordable. It’s nothing that happens all at once, just a slow boiling of the frog until supermarket shelves are a wasteland.

Banning open source would basically destroy the entire Internet in the United States. No tech bro is going to want that.

We’re in a war of attrition with his cult. Every time something like this happens, a few of them reach the point where they can’t stand the cognitive dissonance anymore and start coming out of the fugue he’s kept them in.

I know a lot of them will shove everything they thought about Trump and the Epstein files down the memory hole. But a few won’t. Hopefully enough.

I hate the fact that we just accept this unconstitutional bullshit now without even calling it out as unconstitutional.

Congress is the only governmental body empowered to levy tariffs. Every single one of Trump’s tariffs-by-fiat has been a direct and blatant violation of the constitution.

So now departments of the government that were created by Acts of Congress are just… null and void if King Trump says so?

That’s fair. I guess what I hate is what the term represents, rather than the term itself.

I actively hate the term “vibe coding.” The fact is, while using an LLM for certain tasks is helpful, trying to build out an entire, production-ready application just by prompts is a huge waste of time and is guaranteed to produce garbage code.

At some point, people like your coworker are going to have to look at the code and work on it, and if they don’t know what they’re doing, they’ll fail.

I commend them for giving it a shot, but I also commend them for recognizing it wasn’t working.